Think for a moment. The iPhone doesn't readily allow for home grown apps and must be broken to allow any free apps to be used. Conversely, you want to develop for Windows Mobile instead and MS will not only let you for free but provide the tools and an emulator to do so all at no charge (Visual Studio Express). You don't even need the phone to pull it off. If Apple really wants to be the big name in town it has to open itself up to developers. Windows did not become the big name in town by shutting people out. Apple must realize this.
Why does nobody post statistics for Final Fantasy XI? Seriously. The game still kicks with over 500,000 subscribers according to the last census and in this list are at least three MMOs probably doing nowhere near that lately.
Build for the console first then a computer second. Final Fantasy XI: Online did this six years ago and we're still half a million strong; SquareEnix must have done something right. The biggest issue is getting past not having a keyboard. In XI, you can use just about any USB keyboard and get it to work with a console and you're all set or use the soft keyboard (which is pulled up in one buttonstroke) wherever you need to. Hell, even the little Xbox 360 controller attachement works for this. It works because it stays within the constraints of the weakest console, in this case, the Playstation 2. The game and all of it's expansions still work flawlessly on Playstation 2. While a lot of people agree that, for the most part, it holds the game back a bit, there is also a majority of XI players living in Japan. So the game works because it was tailored for the weakest console then ported upward. Granted, the PC version looks the best but the Xbox 360 Version is VERY smooth in framerate and color. If you make a game for the PC in this sense and try to backport it I'll bet it won't work very well.
Working for ******* (Unnamed contracting firm), 5:1000. That's right, the ratio is 1:200. How we even lived through this sort of hell is interesting, not to mention most of us at the end of the day could only go home and pass out.
And therefore the general populace of computer users who don't tell it to install are obviously not going to have it. Not to mention it requires clicks to install unlike all other updates that happen on their own and just tell you to reboot every 20 minutes. So I guess we could say Microsoft really needs to push 7 if they want everyone secure.
I was taught two things. By my science instructors it was evolution the concept. The concept of life evolves and adapts based on enviroment and other factors, not that we evolved from primates. This is beliveable. This works.
By my English instructor, he taught the meld theory. That science and religion can somehow both be right. While details of this were sketchy by him at best, he suggested that god and creationism can exsist and so can evolution and even the Big Bang.
This is New York State baby. Where Science and Religion somehow can work together.
But only when the air is dry and I've been walking around on my carpet in my socks. What really is happening most of the time is the charge is so built up in someone's body that the second you touch a metal surface you discharge it, thereby feeling the shock and thereby causing the problem for yourself. By the way, I'm not using a Dell, I'm using an ASUS G2P with a steel plate.
One, this needs the "misleadingtitle" tag. It doesn't mandate the filter, just makes it available upon request.
Second, who in hell determines "inapropriate content" for this thing? So much potential abuse there.
Then who or what is this laptop made for? I can see this, at best, being a tool for children in elementary schools (I had a laptop since third grade, supplied by the school) to get them closer to computers and allow them to learn somehow, but they'd have to be locked down heavily. Like no internet, no games (durring class) and some other things. I'd include a heavy range of software from simple learning tools and educational software, to things like programming tools and stuff of the like to have the kids play around and use these machines to seriously help them.
Giving computers to children who can hardly read isn't going to help. I'd rather give the money to a food bank.
This actually happened with Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. In patch 1.05, they introduced a heavier version of their DRM, similar to what this article describes, but within a couple weeks of it's release, released another patch (1.06) which got rid of it altogether because of the massive series of issues it kept causing with big guys on the ladder.
1.07 Introduced the Mod Development Kit and runtime environment.
1.08 Was a patch for the MDK.
1.09 Will be a balance patch.
However, will EA ever get around to the hundreds of thousands of errors just like this? In a similar fashion of censorship described above, they deny these errors exist. Why do they happen? Apparently from my reading of hundreds of posts involving these errors, they all revolve around mutlicore and multi-CPU machines. According to some googling, this was a problem with Battle for Middle Earth. What is EA's official response? It's because we're either: Running Emulation Software (a resounding no), outdated drivers (majority no), lack of fulfilling system requirements (big no) and networking issues (no through a horrible laugh). Another thing that bothers me about this game is that the main executable and many other things reside inside of another file appropriately named game.dat (you will see it in the above screenshot).
However, this is truly a shame. Why? The game ****ing rocks! I have to play it on an old 2.8GHz P4 (all other computers in my network are mutlticpu, emulated or not) with other shoddy hardware on the lowest settings possible, but it's still fun to play as a game, while not looking visually appealing at all. I'd rather play it on my Quad-DuoCPU machine, but I can't! Is this game a waste of money? You bet it is. With EA and who they are, do they really think they can survive making a game that can't run with multiple CPU computers when every other game in the series can do so without an issue? Okay, I've had enough.
It's like the force. I mean, make it seem like something is there that isn't. But unfortunately this is profoundly less useful as it stands, or it can be used to induce a different religion in folks.
I get into work, drop my stuff and clock in, log onto Trillian, log into Final Fantasy XI, grab a cup of tea, come back, craft about 500,000 gil worth of stuff, bitch about how it's not selling on the auction house, logout, go to lunch, come back, code, check the auction house again. Leave.
Sure. It's boring and simple, but I have three computers at my desk to play with and it's always fun.
I have been to this school as well. It's sluggish as hell, very unreliable and easy to break into. I wouldn't even consider going to this school, not because they don't offer programs I want, but because of manditory wireless internets and cell phones. Rediculus waste of money.
Particularly with the Dual Shock and the Atari stick. Let me break it down.
Xbox 360 controller: Doesn't feel bad. Pretty good in my book, but seems kinda small at some points. Though, I wish CNET would check their facts. This is not the first standard wireless controller. If I recall correctly, certain Gamecubes were released with Wavebirds as standard. Also, I would hardly call this controller original, it really incorporates tons of other things from other controllers, though the headset jack is quite interesting.
Playstation 2 Dual Shock Analogue Controller (damn that's a mouthful): I'll have to admit it wasn't bad. Though, once again I come back with checking facts. The analogue control stick wasn't first put on pad by Nintendo, it was Sega with the Dreamcast. Really I think this controller was a copy of Nintendo when they came back with the first force feedback device for a controller (Hint: Rumble Pack). What really irked me about this controller was how flat it was. The buttons didn't really seem to jut out of the controller, making them easy to miss sometimes.
Nintendo 64: Now I liked this controller, but it had one important flaw which I couldn't get used to and this is because the control pad and the L button required you to take your hand off the stick and move it to the left side. Granted, a lot of games only used one or the other, but the minor flaw was there. One of the fun things to exploit with this was playing Perfect Dark with two controllers, though it was still somewhat flawed there. This was fixed in the Gamecube controller. (See below)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Good controller, not the easiest to hold, but still worthwhile.
Atari 2600: Um...what? A controller with one huge analog joystick that often requires a large amount of strength to move and one button? I have to disagree here. It's too big for one, hard to move around when you're four years old (I started playing games at an early age) and finally it's impossible to use by someone who's left handed. The button itself is on the left side and I use a stick with my left. It just doesn't work here.
Gamecube Controller: Yes. Just yes. It's like an N64 controller done right. Get rid of the left side additional and make it integrated with the main body of the controller. The sizing and design made it comfortable in big hands as well as small hands. The addition of analoge shoulder buttons made for interesting levels of gameplay, particularly with something like Rouge Squadron II: Rouge Leader, because it allowed you to vary your speed more easily. A lot of people found the button design weird, but when you got down to holding it, it felt very natural.
Wii Remote and Nunchuck: Another fine work. It allowed for gameplay that extended beyond pressing buttons. Wii Sports and Wii Play (do you?/laugh) took this controller and made it very fun to play. Swing a golf club, shoot a pool cue and even go fishing with a realistic real (I jumped to Twilight Princess) and you've got a fine controller. You had fewer buttons to play with, just the motion of your wrists and arms could accomplish so much and it even allows someone who's left handed to swap everything around and have it feel very natural. Yes, it hasn't been out for a year yet, so I'll give CNET the benefit there, but I'm interested in seeing where this goes.
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the first time that Microsoft has offered the option since it integrated the browser with Windows in 1997
Wrong. In add/remove windows components IE can be removed and that feature's been there since it's inception to Windows 98.
Such as IE8? Would that suit your fancy?
Think for a moment. The iPhone doesn't readily allow for home grown apps and must be broken to allow any free apps to be used. Conversely, you want to develop for Windows Mobile instead and MS will not only let you for free but provide the tools and an emulator to do so all at no charge (Visual Studio Express). You don't even need the phone to pull it off. If Apple really wants to be the big name in town it has to open itself up to developers. Windows did not become the big name in town by shutting people out. Apple must realize this.
Practicaly ziltch thanks to the STF. The kind of people that ban about 3,000 RMT a week.
Why does nobody post statistics for Final Fantasy XI? Seriously. The game still kicks with over 500,000 subscribers according to the last census and in this list are at least three MMOs probably doing nowhere near that lately.
Build for the console first then a computer second. Final Fantasy XI: Online did this six years ago and we're still half a million strong; SquareEnix must have done something right. The biggest issue is getting past not having a keyboard. In XI, you can use just about any USB keyboard and get it to work with a console and you're all set or use the soft keyboard (which is pulled up in one buttonstroke) wherever you need to. Hell, even the little Xbox 360 controller attachement works for this. It works because it stays within the constraints of the weakest console, in this case, the Playstation 2. The game and all of it's expansions still work flawlessly on Playstation 2. While a lot of people agree that, for the most part, it holds the game back a bit, there is also a majority of XI players living in Japan. So the game works because it was tailored for the weakest console then ported upward. Granted, the PC version looks the best but the Xbox 360 Version is VERY smooth in framerate and color. If you make a game for the PC in this sense and try to backport it I'll bet it won't work very well.
Working for ******* (Unnamed contracting firm), 5:1000. That's right, the ratio is 1:200. How we even lived through this sort of hell is interesting, not to mention most of us at the end of the day could only go home and pass out.
...that everybody who's knocking Vista loves it so much they want to have it's children?
And therefore the general populace of computer users who don't tell it to install are obviously not going to have it. Not to mention it requires clicks to install unlike all other updates that happen on their own and just tell you to reboot every 20 minutes. So I guess we could say Microsoft really needs to push 7 if they want everyone secure.
I was taught two things. By my science instructors it was evolution the concept. The concept of life evolves and adapts based on enviroment and other factors, not that we evolved from primates. This is beliveable. This works. By my English instructor, he taught the meld theory. That science and religion can somehow both be right. While details of this were sketchy by him at best, he suggested that god and creationism can exsist and so can evolution and even the Big Bang. This is New York State baby. Where Science and Religion somehow can work together.
Microsoft. I had to say it.
It's weighs, not weights. Good gracious, use a grammar check!
liesdamnedliesandstatistics $160 billion because people don't take their pills? I doubt that sounds right.
Almost complete duplicate of the Wiimote in a cell phone. Bluetooth connection, interacting with objects and whatnot.
But only when the air is dry and I've been walking around on my carpet in my socks. What really is happening most of the time is the charge is so built up in someone's body that the second you touch a metal surface you discharge it, thereby feeling the shock and thereby causing the problem for yourself. By the way, I'm not using a Dell, I'm using an ASUS G2P with a steel plate.
One, this needs the "misleadingtitle" tag. It doesn't mandate the filter, just makes it available upon request. Second, who in hell determines "inapropriate content" for this thing? So much potential abuse there.
That this will just cause more issues than help any by giving away vulnerabilities in Windows. Just me thinking.
Then who or what is this laptop made for? I can see this, at best, being a tool for children in elementary schools (I had a laptop since third grade, supplied by the school) to get them closer to computers and allow them to learn somehow, but they'd have to be locked down heavily. Like no internet, no games (durring class) and some other things. I'd include a heavy range of software from simple learning tools and educational software, to things like programming tools and stuff of the like to have the kids play around and use these machines to seriously help them.
Giving computers to children who can hardly read isn't going to help. I'd rather give the money to a food bank.
This actually happened with Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. In patch 1.05, they introduced a heavier version of their DRM, similar to what this article describes, but within a couple weeks of it's release, released another patch (1.06) which got rid of it altogether because of the massive series of issues it kept causing with big guys on the ladder.
1.07 Introduced the Mod Development Kit and runtime environment.
1.08 Was a patch for the MDK.
1.09 Will be a balance patch.
However, will EA ever get around to the hundreds of thousands of errors just like this? In a similar fashion of censorship described above, they deny these errors exist. Why do they happen? Apparently from my reading of hundreds of posts involving these errors, they all revolve around mutlicore and multi-CPU machines. According to some googling, this was a problem with Battle for Middle Earth. What is EA's official response? It's because we're either: Running Emulation Software (a resounding no), outdated drivers (majority no), lack of fulfilling system requirements (big no) and networking issues (no through a horrible laugh). Another thing that bothers me about this game is that the main executable and many other things reside inside of another file appropriately named game.dat (you will see it in the above screenshot).
However, this is truly a shame. Why? The game ****ing rocks! I have to play it on an old 2.8GHz P4 (all other computers in my network are mutlticpu, emulated or not) with other shoddy hardware on the lowest settings possible, but it's still fun to play as a game, while not looking visually appealing at all. I'd rather play it on my Quad-DuoCPU machine, but I can't! Is this game a waste of money? You bet it is. With EA and who they are, do they really think they can survive making a game that can't run with multiple CPU computers when every other game in the series can do so without an issue? Okay, I've had enough.
It's like the force. I mean, make it seem like something is there that isn't. But unfortunately this is profoundly less useful as it stands, or it can be used to induce a different religion in folks.
I get into work, drop my stuff and clock in, log onto Trillian, log into Final Fantasy XI, grab a cup of tea, come back, craft about 500,000 gil worth of stuff, bitch about how it's not selling on the auction house, logout, go to lunch, come back, code, check the auction house again. Leave. Sure. It's boring and simple, but I have three computers at my desk to play with and it's always fun.
Applications. What about drivers?
I have been to this school as well. It's sluggish as hell, very unreliable and easy to break into. I wouldn't even consider going to this school, not because they don't offer programs I want, but because of manditory wireless internets and cell phones. Rediculus waste of money.
Seems I'm having trouble keeping my facts straight as well.
Particularly with the Dual Shock and the Atari stick. Let me break it down.
/laugh) took this controller and made it very fun to play. Swing a golf club, shoot a pool cue and even go fishing with a realistic real (I jumped to Twilight Princess) and you've got a fine controller. You had fewer buttons to play with, just the motion of your wrists and arms could accomplish so much and it even allows someone who's left handed to swap everything around and have it feel very natural. Yes, it hasn't been out for a year yet, so I'll give CNET the benefit there, but I'm interested in seeing where this goes.
Xbox 360 controller: Doesn't feel bad. Pretty good in my book, but seems kinda small at some points. Though, I wish CNET would check their facts. This is not the first standard wireless controller. If I recall correctly, certain Gamecubes were released with Wavebirds as standard. Also, I would hardly call this controller original, it really incorporates tons of other things from other controllers, though the headset jack is quite interesting.
Playstation 2 Dual Shock Analogue Controller (damn that's a mouthful): I'll have to admit it wasn't bad. Though, once again I come back with checking facts. The analogue control stick wasn't first put on pad by Nintendo, it was Sega with the Dreamcast. Really I think this controller was a copy of Nintendo when they came back with the first force feedback device for a controller (Hint: Rumble Pack). What really irked me about this controller was how flat it was. The buttons didn't really seem to jut out of the controller, making them easy to miss sometimes.
Nintendo 64: Now I liked this controller, but it had one important flaw which I couldn't get used to and this is because the control pad and the L button required you to take your hand off the stick and move it to the left side. Granted, a lot of games only used one or the other, but the minor flaw was there. One of the fun things to exploit with this was playing Perfect Dark with two controllers, though it was still somewhat flawed there. This was fixed in the Gamecube controller. (See below)
Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Good controller, not the easiest to hold, but still worthwhile.
Atari 2600: Um...what? A controller with one huge analog joystick that often requires a large amount of strength to move and one button? I have to disagree here. It's too big for one, hard to move around when you're four years old (I started playing games at an early age) and finally it's impossible to use by someone who's left handed. The button itself is on the left side and I use a stick with my left. It just doesn't work here.
Gamecube Controller: Yes. Just yes. It's like an N64 controller done right. Get rid of the left side additional and make it integrated with the main body of the controller. The sizing and design made it comfortable in big hands as well as small hands. The addition of analoge shoulder buttons made for interesting levels of gameplay, particularly with something like Rouge Squadron II: Rouge Leader, because it allowed you to vary your speed more easily. A lot of people found the button design weird, but when you got down to holding it, it felt very natural.
Wii Remote and Nunchuck: Another fine work. It allowed for gameplay that extended beyond pressing buttons. Wii Sports and Wii Play (do you?